Hotter Rails To Hell: Is America Waking Up?

Disillusionment has not lessened in the close to two yrs. since Just Another Blog™ started. We're not sure we've really contributed, but it hasn't been for lack of trying.

Confidence in organized religion also fell significantly under Bush's watch, although most of the decline came between 2000 and 2002, when the rating dropped from 29 percent to 19 percent. I'm not sure whether that was the result of the Catholic priest scandals, some odd kind of ricochet from 9/11, or something else, but the scores have yet to really recover.

As noted somewhere very recently, the number of professed atheists almost doubled over 19 yrs.

Fifteen per cent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 per cent in 2001 and 8.2 per cent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey. The study found that the numbers of Americans with no religion rose in every state. "No other religious bloc has kept such a pace in every state," the study’s authors said.

Enough of that good news, we should also note declining trust in virtually everything except the military. We're going to hope & assume this is more of a support the troops thing than a hurrah for the military-industrial complex & Pentagon desk-jockeys, civilian & uniformed. (If it isn't outright sympathy for those sent into no-win situations against a non-threatening nation.)Otherwise, "our institutions" are losing our confidence, some faster then others. We see that "Television" & "Press, The" both clock in at nine percent. If American confidence in those two institutions is so low, how can the recent election be blamed by the losers on liberal elite media bias? We couldn't find the survey dates

came out with their preliminary 2008 data (which, I should warn you, is a little bit cumbersome to access).

but the results for "Banks/Financial Institutions" & "Major Companies" indicate the full econo-melt-down hadn't occurred when the questions were posed.